04a — Zones¶

A zone is an area you draw on the map — a box over a spill, the patch in front of the couch, the strip by the stove. Cleaning a zone is more precise than cleaning a whole room: the vacuum works just that footprint, and a zone can cross a room boundary on purpose (the entryway plus a corner of the office, where the leaves blow in).

There are three ways to use a zone, from most casual to most deliberate:

Clean an area right now — draw a box, send it, done. Nothing is saved.
Save a zone you'll come back to — draw it once, name it ("the stove"), and re-clean it any time in one tap.
Fold a zone into a room-clean run — add a saved zone as a step so a single job cleans some rooms and a zone, in sequence.

The first is a quick tool. The second and third are what turn zone cleaning from a one-off into something the card remembers, sequences, and learns.

There is also go-to, which is not a zone at all: it sends the robot to a single point and leaves it there, without cleaning. It is covered at the end.

Where zones work

Zone cleaning needs a device-accurate map backdrop — either the live map image or the rendered ▦ room map — on a brand that supports it: Eufy (eufy-clean v1.11.1+), Roborock (the S6, and likely other models, through the stock integration) and Dreame (on models whose geometry we have verified against real hardware — see the table at the end). You can draw at any map rotation. Right after you switch maps, drawing is briefly paused until the robot moves and re-localizes on the new map (a banner explains and offers an override) — drawing before then would land the box in the old map's coordinates. Per-clean limits are brand-specific — see Brand support and limits at the end.

Clean an area right now (draw a box)¶

This is the one-off: an area you want cleaned once, not kept.

Open the Map view and tap the ▢ "Draw a zone to clean" button in the map toolbar to enter zone mode.
Drag a box on the map over the area you want cleaned. Repeat to add more boxes — up to the brand cap (each is numbered).
The Zone clean panel (right column) lists your boxes. Remove one with its ✕, or Clear to drop them all. Under Settings, choose the suction/mop options for the run — they apply to the whole clean.
Press Clean zone (or Clean N zones) to send it. Cancel leaves zone mode without cleaning.

These boxes are ephemeral — they aren't kept between cleans. If you find yourself drawing the same box over and over, save it instead (below).

Save a zone you'll reuse¶

A saved zone is a named, reusable region. You draw it once, give it a human name, and it stays on the map for that map version — ready to re-clean, or to drop into a run as a step. Humans navigate by landmark, not coordinate: "clean under the couch" is how you actually think about a spot, so the name is the whole point.

Save one¶

Open the Rooms view and find the Saved Zones panel. Click + Draw a zone — available over the live map, since you draw the box directly on it.
Drag a box over the region and click Save zone — the draw UI here is just a hint plus Save zone / Cancel; there's no live size readout, and the per-clean size limit isn't checked at save. It's checked later, when you actually clean the zone (see Brand support and limits), so a saved zone can be too big or small to clean until you delete it and draw a new one.
When prompted, name it — "the stove", "front of couch", "cat corner". The name is yours; the card stores and shows it verbatim, never translated.

On save, the card files the zone under a room automatically: if at least ~90% of the zone's floor sits in one room, it's filed there; otherwise it lands in Unassigned (this is common and fine for a zone that deliberately spans two rooms). The filing is organizational only — it decides where the zone appears in the list, and never changes what gets cleaned. The automatic filing and the m² size shown afterward both come from the Eufy map raster, so on Roborock they aren't computed — a new zone files under Unassigned with no size shown, and you can move it with the per-zone room picker.

Browse, reassign, and clean¶

Saved zones live in the Saved Zones panel in the Rooms view, grouped by the room they're filed under (with Unassigned last). Each entry shows its name, plus its size on brands where it's computed (Eufy) — on Roborock no size is shown (see above).

Action	What it does
Select → Clean N selected	Tick one or more zones and press Clean N selected — one zone cleans just that footprint, several clean as one batch (up to the brand cap). Clear drops the selection.
Rename	Renames a saved zone.
File under room	A per-zone picker moves a zone to a different room section, or to Unassigned. Filing only — it never affects the clean.
Delete	Removes the saved zone (asks you to confirm first).

Saved zones survive a map switch; a re-map clears them

A saved zone is stored relative to the map (not to absolute coordinates), so it stays put across sessions and is converted to the vacuum's live coordinates fresh each time it's cleaned. But a genuine re-map (redrawing the floor plan) changes what the coordinates mean, so it invalidates that map's saved zones — you'd re-save them against the new map.

Add a zone to a run (a zone step)¶

The most powerful use: make a saved zone a step inside a normal room-clean run, so one job does rooms and a zone in sequence — the same way a charge or wait stop is a step. "Vacuum the kitchen and living room, then hit the stove zone, then mop the kitchen" becomes one button press.

A zone step is added on the queue:

Set up your room queue as usual (see The Queue and Room Order) — a zone step needs at least two rooms queued.
Tap the + Zone chip in the Rooms view. (It appears only once you have at least one saved zone on this map, with two or more rooms queued and no run active.)
In the Add a zone step picker, tick one or more saved zones — they'll clean together as a single phase — and press Add to queue.

The zone step drops into the queue as a 🎯 chip, at an interior slot between your room groups (it never leads — the run always opens with a room). It behaves like the other stops:

It shows in the flat queue chip row and in the "This Job" preview alongside your rooms, charge, and wait steps.
You can reorder or remove it — from the queue, or in the run-profile editor's step list. Unlike a charge or wait stop, a zone step can also be moved to trail after the last room (charge/wait stops stay interior); use the move handle to place it there.
When you save your setup as a run profile, the zone step is captured with it, so the profile replays the whole rooms-and-zone sequence on Run (or from its Home Assistant button). See Profiles → Steps.

Adding vs. editing zone steps

Zone steps are added from the queue's + Zone chip — the profile editor's own step controls add charge, wait, and room-group steps, not zones. Once a zone step is in a profile, the editor lists it (🎯) and lets you reorder or remove it like any other step.

While a zone step is cleaning, the live view shows a dedicated zone status and the zone chip goes current in the live queue — the vacuum docks and returns just as it does for a charge or wait stop, and the run isn't treated as finished until the whole sequence is done.

Automate a zone clean¶

You can fire a saved zone from a Home Assistant automation — clean "under the table" every evening, or "the entryway" whenever a rain sensor trips. The clean_saved_zone / clean_saved_zones services are the automation form of the Clean button, and pre-run timing ("only once charged", "off-peak only") lives in the automation's conditions rather than inside the job. See the worked examples in Automation examples → Clean a saved zone and Pre-run conditions.

Learned zone times¶

Once you run a saved zone as a step, the card learns how long it takes — as a wall-clock total, so a mop zone's dock-to-wet-the-pad and post-wash time counts as the wait you actually experience. That learned time drives the zone chip's estimate on the next run. Before there's a sample, the card estimates from the zone's size instead, and shows a "learning" hint. Zone learning is separate from room learning and keyed per zone and mode (mop vs. vacuum) — see The Learning System → Zone learning for the details.

Send the robot to a spot (go-to)¶

Sometimes you don't want an area cleaned — you want the robot over there. Go-to sends it to a single point and leaves it there.

Tap the go-to control on the map, then tap where you want it to go. The robot drives there and stops; it does not start cleaning, and it does not return to the dock on its own.

It is useful for the things a room clean can't express: parking the robot out of the way before guests arrive, bringing it somewhere you can reach it, or driving it to a spot you're about to clean manually so you can see it has localized correctly.

Where go-to works

Go-to appears only on vacuums that support it, so if you don't see the control your model doesn't offer it. On Dreame it is gated the same way zone cleaning is — verified models only, for the same coordinate-frame reason (see Brand support and limits).

Automations can do the same thing with eufy_vacuum.goto — see Services.

Brand support and limits¶

	Eufy	Roborock	Dreame
Zone cleaning	eufy-clean v1.11.1+	S6 (and likely others) via the stock integration	verified models only — currently the L10s Ultra Gen2
Zones per clean	up to 10	up to 5	up to 10
Per-zone size	~0.5–10 m per side	1 ft² – 32.8 ft² each	no separate size cap
Repeat passes	—	—	up to 2
Draw over	live map or the ▦ rendered map	the ▦ rendered map (the Draw a zone button appears once it's on)	live map or the ▦ rendered map

Dreame: why your model may not offer it

A drawn box has to be inverted into the robot's own coordinate frame, and getting that wrong sends the robot to the wrong place. So zone cleaning and go-to start switched off on any Dreame model whose geometry has not been checked against real hardware — everything else in the card still works. It opens up per model as hardware is confirmed; open an issue if you have one you would like checked.

Dreame: a zone clean uses your global settings

On Dreame a zone clean is a global clean — the device applies the settings it would use for a whole-house run, not your per-room ones. The card sets those globals for the zone and puts them all back afterwards, including the per-room custom-cleaning switch it has to turn off to write them. Your next normal clean is unaffected.

The card enforces the count cap as you draw — it stops the draw once you hit the per-clean zone limit. The size limit isn't checked at draw or save time; it's checked when you actually clean the zone, and an out-of-size zone is refused then with a message. When in doubt, draw a modest box; you can always save several small zones and clean them as a batch.